Yuri Andropov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1914–1984)
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Yuri Andropov was a Soviet leader who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1982 until his death in 1984, leading the country during a critical period of the Cold War. He is historically significant because he represented a potential turning point in Soviet leadership, though his brief time in power limited his ability to implement major reforms before his health declined.
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Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (15 June [O.S. 2 June] 1914 – 9 February 1984) was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from late 1982 until his death in 1984. He previously served as the Chairman of the KGB from 1967 until 1982.
Earlier in his career, Andropov served as the Soviet ambassador to Hungary from 1954 to 1957. During this period, he took part in the suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. Later under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev, he was appointed chairman of the KGB on 10 May 1967. As Brezhnev's health deteriorated from the mid-1970s onward, Andropov began to increasingly dictate Soviet policy alongside Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Defense Minister Dmitry Ustinov.
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